Why was this painted on the door?

[FASTNOVA]

I was doing some paint prep on the M925A2 and under a layer of paint found what appears to be an outline of a buzzard or vulture whatever you want to call it painted on the door. Does anyone know what it signifies? I highlighted the outline with a pencil.

 

[O.D. Fever]

Possibly the truck was used to clean up the carnage of Desert Storm.

 

[A/C Cages]

just someone really bored

 

[emmado22]

Some units have mottos and mascots. Mascots get painted on the trucks. I once got a M577 in my unit that was a Fire Direction Control Center, it came from A Co, their call sign was Assasin. It has a cool assasin dude on the rear hatch. I'd be more interested in the bumper numbers than the pics on the door.

 

[FASTNOVA]

What I could tell on one side of the bumper it had OPS then on the other side it had a three digit number.

 

[emmado22]

Did it come from Barstow? If so, it came from NTC.. The Vulture Team was the media element of the Training Center.

 

[FASTNOVA]

Yes, it did come from Barstow. What was the Vulture Team? and what did they do?

 

[emmado22]

Google National Training Center Ops Group. They could be a huge PITA if you were a player in the box, recording your every move for later playback infront of everyone in the debriefs.. ...... I mostly dealt with the Goldminers.

 

[quarkz]

I like the vultures.......but it doesn't look the same as the NTC logos from their facebook page .

 

[emmado22]

Yep, thats them. They could watch everything from the Star Wars building... Ahh those were the days.. Task Force Angel, Task Force Destroyer, the Plywoodians, the PPG....

 

[FASTNOVA]

OK, I did a little research on them. I guess they conducted the the training then afterwards told you what you did wrong on video. Thanks Emmado.

 

[emmado22]

Tell, no.. Show you.... That was the worst part.....